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Quotes About Sinister

I know now, like drumbeats. Portentous, and a little sinister, like tympani strikes at the start of a gloomy symphony. Shostakovich, maybe.
~ Lee Child
Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.
~ Libba Bray
You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.
~ Libba Bray
Did he? Jenny lowered her voice. Shall I tell you what I think of that man? I think he's slightly sinister. Having made this pronouncement, she entered the ivory tower of her deafness and closed the door. Denis could not induce her to say anything more, could not induce her even to listen. She just smiled at him, smiled and occasionally nodded.
~ Aldous Huxley
It is a sort of sinister warning that there is some person or some thing in the Universe outside oneself: and the realisation of that is as frankly frightening as the other realisation, that one is eternally alone, is horrible.
~ Aleister Crowley
I am attracted to the dark side of life!
~ Famke Janssen
In 1934, after Upton Sinclair was defeated in his campaign to become the next governor of California, he labeled the advertising concern that defeated him a "lie factory." Marston took much the same view. One of Wonder Woman's most sinister adversaries, the Duke of Deception, runs an advertising firm called the Lie Factory.
~ Jill Lepore
You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.
~ Jim Butcher
There was something too extraordinary in the appearance of this man, too singular in his conduct, to pass unnoticed by the visitors. He. was of a tall thin figure, bending forward from the shoulders; of a sallow complexion, and harsh features, and had an eye, which, as it looked up from the cloke that muffled the lower part of his countenance, seemed expressive of uncommon ferocity.
~ Ann Radcliffe
I am talking about evil. It blooms. It eats. It grins.
~ Anne Carson
A história demonstrou decididamente que as mulheres sabem ser maléficas
~ Anne Holt
One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole in the void, and in the waters, more like whirlwinds than waters, float images of all I ever saw or heard in the world: houses, faces, books, boxes, snatches of music and fragments of voices, all caught up in a sinister, bottomless whirlpool.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
~ Rachel McAdams
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
~ Jung Chang
Probably one of those sinister organisations that lurked behind the mask of amusing acronym, such as BUM, for example - the Bermondsey Union of Minstrels. Or WILLY, the Whitechapel Institution for Long-Legged Yodellers. It could be any one of a hundred such evil cabals. With the notable exception of the Meritorious Union For Friendship, Decency, Individualism, Virtue and Educational Resources, who were above reproach.
~ Robert Rankin
Under that smiling exterior," Casey said ominously as we took our seats, "lies the soul of a ruthless killer.
~ Robin Brande
He dropped them with an impressive thump upon one of the little tables and favored both new pupils with a deliberately sinister smile. If this was to be anything like training young soldiers, young horses, or young hawks, the key was to take the initiative from the first moment, and keep it thereafter. He could be as hollow as a drum, so long as he was as loud.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Let's not get naughty. How about homicidal instead?
~ Lora Leigh
Oh, she's getting sinister and passee. Perhaps; but only sometimes!
~ Ronald Firbank
insinuating approach a child molester would use? "If you
~ Ruth Rendell
His smile was the rictus of a beast.
~ Salman Rushdie
There were sinister aspects of magic, and what you brought into this world was your responsibility, to deal with forevermore.
~ Alice Hoffman
Evil always did that, appeared when you least expect it.
~ Alice Hoffman